From the course: SketchUp: Modeling Exteriors from Photos
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Modeling bargeboards on the left side
From the course: SketchUp: Modeling Exteriors from Photos
Modeling bargeboards on the left side
- [Instructor] Our next job is to model this roof, and the barge boards come first. But we can't use the techniques that we've used earlier, because we only have this one photo that shows us this information. So, we can't use the Photo Point tool, which we used previously. And that requires at least two photos to create guidelines from. So, we're going to have to approach this in a different way. I'll draw a line from the midpoint in this group, straight up in the blue direction. And then, I'll zoom in up here, and draw another line. And I'm just going to eyeball that line, and click along the edge, right here. And then draw the line in the green direction. And this point should then represent the top of the barge boards, because the roof does overhang the wall a short distance. So, now I will go ahead and draw in a line, in the red direction. And then, select that line, and choose Tools, Rotate. Position the cursor right here, press the left arrow to indicate the green direction, and…
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